For the concrete/cement effect here, I mixed my home-made Gesso with ashes from my cigarettes (it took a LOT of ashes to get this color because there is white acrylic paint in my gesso base and applied it with a plastic card.

The other colored gessos were made by simply mixing a few drops of Tim holtz distress Inks with the white gesso. I applied these with stencils using a plastic spoon.

Created September 3, 2015

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